Hanson Crew

Proud of their gingerbread creations

and furry friends are starting to hibernate to warmer places...

My friends Alicia and Ginny are having an open house this Tuesday, Dec 1st from 6:30 to 9:30 to promote their items at Sisterluvcrafts. They are also having a sale at their website right now at http://www.etsy.com/shop/sistersluvcrafts and will have those items available to purchase at the party along with free gift wrapping! If you are interested in attending, please comment and I'll send you the address...it sounds like a great place to finish up your Holiday shopping and they have extra cute stuff! If you can't make the party, but still want to buy something, just check out their website above.

So about a month ago I wrote about our first real pet loss. Our second brown gerbil Mystery had died of starvation I think. Well since his death, we have lost 2 other family pets....can you believe it! First our snail didn't survive a tank change and then today, Princess Leia, our 1 year Beta fish died too. We only have 2 pets now, Clue the gerbil and our non-named African Water Frog (He is 2 1/2 years old - straight from being a tadpole experiment in 1st grade). We aren't sure if we will be replacing any pets next year so we're hoping these two last a little while longer. we'll keep you posted....

Caleb loves to watch for the mailman and then goes out to grab the mail from him. Today he stood outside our house for awhile with another truck moving mail back and forth between the trucks. Caleb was very intrigued and would love to be them someday (if the firefighter thing doesn't work out). It was so exciting to watch, that we took a picture and had to share it with you....now if only I can get that mailman to stop bring depressing bills so often and more exciting sale ads or Christmas cards!!

and we have them both this year! Tall and Skinny and short and fat! (We have skipped our traditional real tree field trip this year $$ - can you tell that we are cheap now? Well maybe that hasn't changed...)

The kids are singing this song all the time these days...I'm not sure where they first heard it, but they LOVE it! And now they add their own lyrics as they sing...it is a little catchy. In fact, we dare ya to listen to this 1 minute song 3 times and see if you can go one full day WITHOUT singing it! Good luck and have a great thanksgiving!